Gate fob wateb-wheels



ALBERT MoREHoUsE, or FARMERNEW Yon` y GATE Fon WATER-WHEELS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,696, dated Janilarf,` 1866, p

To all whom it may concern:`

Be it known that I, ALBERT MoREHoUsE,

of Farmer, in the county of 3 Seneca and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Gates for Water-Wheels, the construction and operation of which I have described in the following specification and illustrated in its accompanying drawings with sufficient clearness to enable competent and skilful workmen inthe arts to which it pertains or is most nearly allied to make and use my invention.

My said invention consists in combining with the spout through which the water is laid on to the wheel, and with each other,

' of two gates set in an angular position to each other and to the directionxof the stream, and so arranged in connection with the other parts as to be made a convenient meansof graduating the thickness of the stream and of slightly changing its position or direction with the same thickness, by drawingthe gates horizontally, as hereinafter more fully setforth. d l i f My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings as follows:

Figure l is a horizontal section showing the parts below the line X X as drawn across Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a side elevatioluthe plane of projection being parallel to that side of the plan which is toward the bottom of the page in Fig. l.

l is the shaft of thewheel, 2 is the rim, and 3, 3, are the buckets or floats.

4c is the fiume or penstock from which the water is conveyed through the spout 5, to act upon the wheel. In most constructions,

a vertical board or gate asit is called, placed in this spout 5, furnishes the means of shutting the water from the wheel, and is oper ated by raising it vertically, it` leaving as it rises an opening below it `to allow the water to pass.

It is often desirable to graduate thesupply of water to the wheel and furnish it with only a portion of what might iiow through the spout with the gate fully open. This is done by partiallytclosing the gate. In the old construction, this Inovementcuts oftl the upper stratum of water, leaving the lower portion to issue as al flat spread out sheet operating only on the lower portions of the buckets. `This is objectionable, the water not working as eiiiciently under such PATNT `circumstances as might otherwise be theca In my arrangement the gates `1 are drawn1 horizontally, leaving, the vertical thick or depth of the sheet ofwater.entire` upon the` whole breadth and 7 are these` gates. agonally in the spout15,`m d ter, their arrangementfbe `suc i dense the stream of water owardt d d of the spout, as will bewobvious froman spection of the parts. "These gates,` i p ranged in connection` with thelother partslas "l, `described and shown, furnish thefmeans off not only graduating gthesupplyof water d lowed to iiow upon ,the wheel, `but also governing itsposition and direction... Ifgt pp, outer gate 7, which is `outside,awere opene l while the other remainediclosed, `theout stratum of water in thespoutalwoul be` allowed to escape, and besides this, the tion of the surface of the winner gatel Ould give the water an outwa 1direction, d would perhaps, if `t" were` I entirely opened and the other` gate .entirely closed, carry `the stream outside` of `thel` wheel.` pIf, o he y other hand, the gate 6" were opened,1and other closed, the inside y stratum; would b discharged, and a direction muchffar e toward the axis of the wheelfwould be give By partially openingllgl both "l th equally, the centraliiportionyof the would be, discharged, and theldire p the water would bein line@ w htheisp ut It will be obvious `that l operation of `both these direction may be given" the supply` graduated stances of the casei" QB miller can graduategt e stre y direction, d to obtain;` the best eifect by y ma ing both circumstances `correspondwith` th head of water, the work tolbe. done, and" he speed of the wheel which isj required; 11 d 8 and 9` are leversxto operate thegates. Having thus ful `said i vention, I claimy 1` The combination `.wi `etspout ,l with each other, y of `thef` gates 6"and7,i clined and arranged as described, `forth `purposes set forth. H d i ALBERT MMOREHOUS d Witnesses:

Trios. P. I-Iow,

JOHN CRUMLY.` y 

